John Bordwine

With over a decade of experience in the security industry, John Bordwine is widely recognized as an expert in his field. John is currently the public sector CTO at Symantec where he is focusing on the specific requirements and certifications to ensure security solution compliance to the U.S. federal and state/local agencies.

John serves as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on the development of products and solutions that meet government requirements and certifications specifically focused on the public sector markets. His responsibilities also include all technical activities related to public sector customers and provides guidance to other Symantec business units around specific requirements to the public sector industry.

Prior to Symantec John served as public sector CTO at McAfee and director of federal systems engineering at Enterasys Networks. John has spoken at numerous highly-acclaimed security events, including SANS Institute events, FOSE, AFITC, and U.S. government agency-specific functions. John served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps where his last assignment was with the White House Communications Agency.

Gary Gagnon

Mr. Gary Gagnon, a leader in the fields of information operations, cyber crime, and critical infrastructure security protection, is The MITRE Corporation's corporate director of cyber security. Working closely with MITRE's leadership, he is responsible for developing the company's cyber security strategy and executing all cyber work program activities across the company's four federally funded research and development centers and all government customers. In addition, he is responsible for MITRE's internal cyber security program and the use of company systems as a test bed for providing recommended actions to government customers.

Concurrent with his cyber security responsibilities, Mr. Gagnon serves as a vice president in MITRE's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. In this role, he focuses on support to the U.S. intelligence agencies, military intelligence organizations, and the combatant commanders with an emphasis on cyber issues within the Intelligence Community.

Previously, Mr. Gagnon was executive director for MITRE's National Security Programs. He supported civilian intelligence organizations, applying and integrating sound systems engineering, research and analysis, and innovative technology to address a range of intelligence challenges within the homeland and national security mission areas. Earlier, as director of MITRE's work program in cyber assurance and law enforcement, he set technical direction and guided program execution in the early research, development, and analysis of threat and vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructure against cyber intrusions.

During the millennium roll-over, Mr. Gagnon led a team of top experts from 24 private sector companies in support of the Cyber Assurance National Information Center (NIC) for the Y2K Information Coordination Center. The Cyber Assurance NIC provided the federal government with computer intrusion and malicious code release information from the private sector. Concurrent with this role, he worked with the National Infrastructure Protection Center on strategies for protecting the nation against a cyber attack.

Since 1998, Mr. Gagnon has helped pioneer investigative approaches to emerging cyber threats. Notably, he worked with a team that formulated the technology to investigate the earliest large-scale denial of service attack in early 2000–an attack that exposed widespread Internet vulnerabilities.

Mr. Gagnon, who joined MITRE in 1986, has held several leadership positions where he concentrated on solving information security issues for a variety of Department of Defense (DoD) organizations, including the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and the National Security Agency (NSA). As part of this work, he investigated technologies such as intrusion detection systems, firewall technology, computer forensics, and virtual private networks, as well as "NSA-Grade" quality security countermeasures.

Mr. Gagnon has also led MITRE's efforts to help set–and communicate–software industry security data standards to fortify vendor products against vulnerabilities. The company's open source programs, including Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®); Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL®); Common Platform Enumeration (CPE™); and Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE™), assist government sponsors and customers, as well as private industry, to develop protections for data and information.

Before joining MITRE, Mr. Gagnon worked for Harris Corporation on a variety of software development projects for the DoD. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Fitchburg State College.

William (Bill) Hickox

As the central IT agency for the state of Delaware, DTI is responsible for all technology initiatives and implementation throughout all three branches of State Government including support of K-12. Bill directly oversees the operations, infrastructure, telecommunications, systems engineering, systems administration, finance, and HR administration for DTI.

Bill's career began in Delaware state government 16 years ago and spent the first 9 years at the statewide transit authority as Director of Operations. In 2005, he was selected as Chief Operating Officer of DTI. Bill has overseen operations and budget for IT during the worst economy in recent history, but has been able to reduce costs, while maintaining services through creative partnerships, targeted cost cutting and improving service delivery mechanisms.

In addition to his experience in IT and Transportation, Bill is an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics at Wilmington University in Delaware.

David L. McClure

Dave McClure was appointed as the Associate Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration Office of Citizen Services and Communications effective August 24, 2009. In 2010, the office was re-established as the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.

As Associate Administrator, McClure advances GSA's responsibilities in serving the American people through open and transparent government initiatives to provide increased government accessibility to the public. McClure also identifies and applies new technologies to improve government operations and service delivery.

The Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies is a powerful advocate for making government operations more open, transparent, and participatory. Through the use of innovative technologies, the office connects the public to government information and services through various channels, including collaborative and public dialogue tools, call centers, and other emerging new media and citizen engagement technologies. As part of this effort, the office runs the award-winning USA.gov, the official website of the federal government, Data.gov, created and hosts Challenge.gov, and several other high profile transparency federal web sites. In addition, he oversees the Federal Cloud Computing PMO which is responsible for implementation and evolution of the Apps.gov web site, creation of FedRamp (a governmentwide security accreditation, certification, and authorization program), assists OMB in governmentwide data center consolidation. He serves on the Federal CIO Council Executive Committee.

McClure previously served as the managing vice president for Gartner Inc.'s government research team. There, he managed the global government research agenda and analyst support, and was lead researcher on government information technology management practices. McClure also served on the Obama-Biden transformation, innovation, and government reform transition team, which examined federal agency IT plans and status for the incoming administration.

Before working at Gartner, McClure served as vice president for e-government and technology at the Council for Excellence in Government. He founded the CIO SAGE program that provides mentoring advice from prior government CIOs to newly appointed CIOs. Previously, McClure had an 18-year career with the Government Accountability Office, where he conducted wide-ranging reviews of major systems development and IT management capabilities in almost all major Cabinet departments and agencies.

McClure has also provided key input on major federal government IT reform legislation, such as the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 that created federal government CIOs and IT business-case requirements, and the e-Government Act of 2002. He is a four-time winner of Federal Computer Week's "Top Federal 100" (1998, 2001, and 2004, 2012) for impact on government IT directions and improvements. He received the Fed100 Government Eagle Award in March 2012, the highest recognition for impact on federal IT. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2009, received AFFIRM's 2010 Government-wide IT Leadership Award, AFCEA Bethesda 2011 Award for Cloud Computing Leadership, the 2011 AFFIRM Leadership Award for Advancement of Open Government, and was selected by InformationWeek in February 2012 as one of the top ten most influential people in government security. His office has received numerous national and international awards for government innovation activities.

McClure received his Bachelor of Arts and a master's degree in political science from the University of Texas, and a doctorate in public policy from the University of North Texas. He also completed post-graduate work in IT management at Harvard and George Washington universities.

Kurt Roemer

As Chief Security Strategist for Citrix Systems, Kurt Roemer leads the security, compliance, risk and privacy strategies for Citrix products. As a member of the Citrix CTO Office, Mr. Roemer drives ideation, innovation and technical direction for products and solutions that advance business productivity while ensuring information governance. An information services veteran with more than 20 years experience, Mr Roemer's credentials include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation, he served as Commissioner for the US public-sector CLOUD2 initiative, and he led efforts to develop the PCI Security Standards Council Virtualization Guidance Information Supplement for the payment card industry while serving on the Board of Advisors. Mr Roemer regularly contributes his expertise on security-related topics in global online, print and broadcast media.

John Streufert

In 2012 John Streufert joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the Director of the National Cyber Security Division. In this role, he leads DHS's effort to build and maintain an effective national cyberspace response system and to implement a cyber risk management program.

Between 2006 and 2012, Mr. Streufert served as the Department of State's Chief Information Security Officer and the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Information Assurance. In July 2008, at Mr. Streufert's request, the State Department began using monthly letter grades to measure executive and technical managers' progress reducing the risk posed to their IT systems. His earlier federal assignments were with the US Agency for International Development, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Navy.